Browsing by Author "Polinsky, Maria"
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Against Covert A-Movement in Russian Unaccusatives
Polinsky, Maria; Potsdam, Eric (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2011) -
Almost Everything Is Relative in the Caucasus
Caponigro, Ivano; Polinsky, Maria (2008) -
Backward Raising
Potsdam, Eric; Polinsky, Maria (Wiley Blackwell (Blackwell Publishing), 2012)This paper documents and analyzes an instance of covert A-movement, specifically covert subject-to-subject raising, in the Northwest Caucasian language Adyghe. We argue that Adyghe has a subject-to-subject raising ... -
The biabsolutive construction in Lak and Tsez
Gagliardi, Annie; Goncalves, Michael; Polinsky, Maria; Radkevich, Nina (Elsevier BV, 2014)In ergative constructions, the agent of a transitive verb is in the ergative case and the theme is in the absolutive case. By contrast, in biabsolutive constructions, both the agent and theme of a transitive verb appear ... -
Case and Grammatical Relations
Polinsky, Maria; Preminger, Omer (Routledge, 2014)This chapter discusses the notions of morphological (surface) case and abstract Case, showing the empirical and theoretical motivation for each. The discussion of morphological case presents the dimensions of cross-linguistic ... -
Clause structure and adjuncts in Austronesian languages (Review)
Polinsky, Maria (Muse - Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009) -
Closest Conjunct Agreement in Head-Final Languages
Benmamoun, Elabbas; Bhatia, Archna; Polinsky, Maria (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009) -
Cognitive and linguistic factors affecting subject/object asymmetry: An eye-tracking study of prenominal relative clauses in Korean
Kwon, Nayoung; Gordon, Peter C.; Lee, Yoonhyoung; Kluender, Robert; Polinsky, Maria (Muse - Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)Object relatives (ORs) have been reported to cause heavier processing loads than subject relatives (SRs) in both pre- and postnominal position (prenominal relatives: Miyamoto & Nakamura 2003, Kwon 2008, Ueno & Garnsey 2008; ... -
Defining an “ideal” heritage speaker: Theoretical and methodological challenges | Reply to peer commentaries
Benmamoun, Elabbas; Montrul, Silvina; Polinsky, Maria (Walter de Gruyter, 2014-03-03) -
Diagnosing Covert A-Movement
Polinsky, Maria; Potsdam, Eric (Oxford University Press, 2011)Covert movement is movement that is not phonologically visible in the syntactic derivation. While covert A'-movement is widely proposed, covert A-movement is quite uncommon and difficult to identify. This chapter discusses ... -
The differential representation of number and gender in Spanish
Fuchs, Zuzanna Z; Polinsky, Maria; Scontras, Gregory (Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2015)This paper investigates the geometry of phi-features with a special emphasis on number and gender in Spanish. We address (i) whether number and gender evidence single- or multi-valued systems for their respective features, ... -
Does Headedness Affect Processing? A New Look at the VO–OV Contrast
Polinsky, Maria (Cambridge University Press, 2009)This paper examines the relationship between headedness and language processing and considers two strategies that potentially ease language comprehension and production. Both strategies allow a language to minimize the ... -
Expanding the Scope of Control and Raising
Polinsky, Maria; Potsdam, Eric (Blackwell Publishing, 2006)This paper presents unusual patterns in raising and control and offers a syntactic account which would validate such patterns. On the empirical side, we present evidence for backward control (data from several languages), ... -
Features In Categorization
Plaster, Keith Edward; Polinsky, Maria (Oxford University Press, 2010) -
Gender Under Incomplete Acquisition: Heritage Speakers’ Knowledge of Noun Categorization
Polinsky, Maria (Language Resource Center of UCLA, UC Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching, 2008) -
Headedness, Again
Polinsky, Maria (UCLA Department of Linguistics, 2012) -
Heritage language and linguistic theory
Scontras, Gregory; Fuchs, Zuzanna Z; Polinsky, Maria (Frontiers Media SA, 2015)This paper discusses a common reality in many cases of multilingualism: heritage speakers, or unbalanced bilinguals, simultaneous or sequential, who shifted early in childhood from one language (their heritage language) ... -
Heritage Language Narratives
Polinsky, Maria (Routledge, 2008) -
Heritage Languages
Polinsky, Maria (Oxford University Press, 2013) -
Heritage Languages and Their Speakers: Looking Ahead
Polinsky, Maria (2014)